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I translated 'Twelve Virtues of Rationality' into Hebrew.
bipolo10

There is some spell errors, but overall it's very nice.

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1Yoav Ravid
Could you mark them? you should be able to to comment on the document
[Spoilers] How did Voldemort learn the horcrux spell?
Answer by bipolo20

Somewhere at the book, Professor Quirrell(who turn to be...) said that Voldemort found the Chamber of secret. Then he ask Harry why did Salazar created the basilisk(instead of just write whatever he wanted), and the answer was the interdict of Merlin. So I guess he learned it from there.

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3habryka
Mod note: Added spoiler tags
[HPMOR] "the Headmaster set fire to a chicken!"
bipolo10

But Harry don't believe in that, so he still was should ask if the chicken was completely normal except it was magical, not?

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[HPMOR] "the Headmaster set fire to a chicken!"
bipolo10

That's maybe possible, but:

  1. I don't think that Dumbledore is someone who think that set fire to "stupid chicken" is ethic (I might disagree with him, but I think that its not the style of Dumbledore).
  2. Harry probably think thats its not how Dumbledore think/how magic works, so when he was told that its was "fake chicken" he was should saying something like: "But was it a normal chicken?" or "Does magic allow it?".
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2Dagon
I think Dumbledore is (portrayed as) someone who _does_ strongly believe in roles, tropes, and categories, and who thinks death is a tragic, but necessary and inevitable part of life. He would think it absolutely permissible to set fire to a chicken (magical or normal) if there were some reason (including a reason as vague as "necessary to impress Harry that I'm mysterious").
Will superintelligent AI be immortal?
bipolo10

Well, its not possible today, but why hypothetical its impossible? If the system is float in the vacuum heat wont go out. Then the only problem is to transform the heat to energy again, and it might be possible someday, I guess.

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2quanticle
The heat won't escape by conduction, nor will it escape by convection. However, it will escape via radiation.
5avturchin
What we know now about thermodynamics, tells us that it is impossible, but some ideas exist like reversible computations.
Will superintelligent AI be immortal?
Answer by bipolo-30

The "end of the universe" can happen in some ways. One of them is the "big freeze" - the galaxies may go far from each other, the starts may die, and so on. In that way, there is no reason why the AI can't "live forever" - it might be a big computer float in the space, far away from anything, and it will be close system so the energy won't run away.

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1TheWakalix
Useful work consumes negentropy. A closed system can only do so much useful work. (However, reversible computations may not require work.)
4avturchin
To make useful computations, AI still needs temperature difference, and it will lose energy by cooling. However, some think that in very cold universe computations will be much more efficient (up to 10 power 30 times) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03394 However, it is not "immortal AI".